Boredom Gets Kaiser Chiefs Working on New Album
- Posted on Feb 10th 2010 4:41AM by Julian Marszalek
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Inspiration comes from many sources, be it heartbreak (see Beck's 'Sea Changes' or Bob Dylan's 'Blood On The Tracks'), death (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' 'Murder Ballads') or even simple tributes to fallen heroes (Radiohead's 'Harry Patch (In Memory Of)'). But for Kaiser Chiefs it's just simple boredom.Having taken time off after their hometown appearance at the Leeds Festival last year, frontman Ricky Wilson has told the BBC that a state of inertia has spurred him back to work.
He said, "After a couple of months [off] we got bored. Then I got really bored, then mind-numbingly bored and that's when you start thinking about the fact you want to get up and do something again."

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Wintertime means cold weather and heavy snowfall for those of us in non-tropical climes, which is a mixed blessing. Sure, there's snowboarding and snowmen, but how does that help when your car is stuck in a snowdrift? More than a few artists have mined the rich metaphoric potential of winter in music videos, usually to melancholy and SAD effect (that's Seasonal Affective Disorder, by the way). Baby, it's cold outside, so read on for some frosty encouragement while you thaw out your fingers with a mug of something hot and boozy. 









